The National Council of the Magistracy (CNM) pre-selected 85 candidates of 184 original candidates to be evaluated in public hearings for the four judge seats available in the Supreme Court of Justice and the five judge seats and their five replacements in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).
The candidates will be interviewed in public hearings that will begin on Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 4pm. These will continue on Friday, 14 July and Saturday, 15 July as of 9am. If necessary, they will continue on Monday, 17 July.
Frank Soto, spokesman for the CNM, said that thereafter, two or three days later, President Danilo Medina would convene the Council to deliberate and vote on the candidates for the two higher courts. He said the list of the 85 pre-selected candidates would be published in print media so that the general public can send in objections over the next three days.
All members of the National Magistracy Council (CNM) were present for the Wednesday, 5 July 2017 meeting. These were President Danilo Medina, president of the Senate Reinaldo Pared Pérez, opposition PRM senator José Ignacio Paliza and PRM deputy Josefa Castillo; president of the Supreme Court of Justice Mariano Germán, Supreme Court judge Frank Soto, Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez and president of the Chamber of Deputies Lucia Medina.
The next meeting of the CNM is set for Wednesday, 12 July at 4pm. During that meeting the members will review the objections to candidates in order to proceed with the evaluations.
